Flurrying
While it's not quite a storm after the calm, getting back into the swing of things after Christmas always feels weirdly like you've just taken your brain out of a box and popped it back into your skull, doesn't it? Well, it does for me.
After grappling with my email inboxes, I managed to fill one again in about 12 minutes flat after advertising a long list of stuff on Freecycle (go on, you know you want to!) and suddenly becoming the most popular person in Mytholmroyd. Just as well it's a small place.
Notably, one woman was "really chuffed" to find that some of our old plates matched her plates and she now has a full set. Spooky, but cool!
Aside from that, I have had loads and loads of emails from random people who want our old digibox - because we now have Sky - each with their own Very Good Reason, which means one thing; they will all have to be put in a hat, with the winner drawn by Ce, who kindly gave us the digibox in the first place. I hate it when this happens... you never know who is genuine, and you feel like you can't judge, because who are you to judge who "deserves" something more than someone else? So Ce and the hat come in. Phew!
Next thing on today's list of boring things to do was to buy a mobile phone. "Oh, get her!" you may cry, but please bear in mind that I hate buying mobile phones. It's all so complicated! I did try to buy one from a shop, but the assistant was a bored, tuned-out youth who completely lacked a sense of humour, and whose vocabulary consisted mainly of "yeah" and "no" and "oh, I don't know," so I had zero luck. In fact, she was so demotivating that I wanted to wave my existing mobile phone in front of her, crush it into tiny pieces with my heel and ask her to dispose of it for me, just to see if she reacted. Lord.
So I decided to cut out the human whatsoever and buy one online. Cue much late-afternoon surfing by me and C, who is just about as clueless as I, trying desperately not to get bored and go and do something more exciting. Anyway I managed to find one in the end - the best thing about it was the fact that it was described as "simple to use" - but not before surfing through pictures of zillions of phones and having to fill in a long, long form online and then suffering much outrage at the fact that my first TWO user name choices were taken. God.
Who cares, anyway? It's on its way, apparently.
Why I am even blogging all this, I don't know. Perhaps my 2008 brain is full already and thus needs emptying? Fun!